Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1924, Page 16

BIG GREETING FOR NEW HEAD OF AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. Employes and officials of the headquarters in Washington wel- coming William Green, newly elected president of the federation, yesterday. the center of the group. PRESIDENT'S MILITARY AIDE AND SON GO RIDING. the latter taking his first ride on a pony recently pr ented to him. his father was attached to the United States Embassy. | | LOCAL OFFICIALS HEARD ON BUDGET Bureau Heads Before House Committee Discuss Police, ! Fire and Health Items. Appropriatoins for the police, fire and health departments of the D trict for the fiscal vear beginning July 1, were considered at the hear- ing the District officials this morn- ing before the subcommittee of the House appropriations committee. The appropriations total for the Police Department, $2 80; for the Fire Department, $2,023.160; for the Health Department, $216,350. Bureau Heads Heard. Those who were called upon to testify today were Maj. Daniel Sulli- can, superintendent of the Metropoli- tan Police fore George Watson, chief of the Fire Department, and Dr. W. C. Fowler, District health of- ficer and E. B. Hesse, chief clerk of the Police Department. The hearing was a routine discus- sion of the needs of these depart-| ments, with justification given for the amounts recommended by the Budget Bureau. Other Items for Consideration. This afternoon, the hearings will be on charities and corrections, which include provisions for Emergency. Casnalty, Georgetown, Providence, Gallinger and other hospitals, as well 8S_a number of welfare institu The hearings will adjourn this aft- erncon until Friday. ASK MORE POLICEMEN. D. C. Officials Hope Appropriation | Bill Will Provide Increase. District officials are hopeful 6f hav- ing the District appropriatton’ bill cdfry provision for a substantial in- in the number of policemen, the fact that this has not med likely up to this time. It was learned today that there is a fossibility of havinz from 50 to 100 men added to the present strength of the force to meet the growing de- mand for better regulation of traffic, ss well as the patroiling of the new residential sections being built up. The - Commissioners are gratified over the consideration they have re- ceived during the past several days at the hearings before the subcommit- tee of the House appropriations com- mittee, 3 Items Considered Yexterday. After the afternoon session yester- much progress was made, in- cluding consideration of the items jor the police, sewer, street cleaning znd electrical departments. oOfficlals at the District Building so are optimistic over the prospect ot obtaining a larger amount for in- allation of new street lights than as allowed for the current fiscal year. The city heads feel that adequate street lighting should be an integral part of any program for the reduc- tion of accidents on the street. They have prepared a comprehensive scheme of improved lighting, to be carried out over a period of Years. ‘It you need work, solumns of The Stary read the Want Pledged to Marry, Chooses New Bride When One Demurs By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 31.—Wil- liam Schoenfeld, a carpenter, of Winfield,"N. Y., who two weeks igo promised Justice George J. O'Keefe in the Jamaica Children's Court that he would be married before the end of the yeat in order to provide adult care for his five small children, produ mar- riage certificate in court yester- day and announced that he had be- come a benedict for the fourth time. “But my new wife is not the one I said I was going to marry,” he explained. “That one didn't want to get married until after New Year, but I wanted to be mar- ried before today to show the court that I had kept my prom- ise.” He said employed household ne that his new wife was chief cook in the of Harry Payne Whit- as MEMORIAL BRIGE BL COMNENDED President Gratified With Prompt Action of Senate on Measure. President Coolidge expressed pleas- ure today at the rapidity with which the Senate yesterday passed the bill providing $14,750,000 for the construc- tion of “Arlington Memorial Bridge | across the Potomac River, connecting the Lincoln Memorial with lington National Cemeter. In making known his pleasure to nator Burke M. Fernald of Me., the Ar- ch: mittee of the Senatc, who engineered this legislation in that body, he ex- pressed the hope that the legislation would receive dust as favorable and rapid treatment in the House of Rep- resentative enator Fernald had called at the White House to confer with the Pres- ident regarding the success of the measure in the Senate yesterday. He expressed the belief that the bill will have no difficulty in passing in the House, Inasmuch as there is ho ap- parent opposition. presentative R, S, Blliott of In- iana, ranking member of the House public buildings and grounds com- mittee, will, in the absence of Chair- man Laugley, have charge of the bill at body. ator Fernald while at the White House expressed much enthusiasm over the passage of his bill in the Se yesterday. Among other things, he told the President that he has already received a number of telegrams from officials and private citizens in various parts of the coun- try congratulating him ujon his achievement and commending the legislation itself. Admiral Ziegemeier Transferred. Rear Admiral Henry J. Ziegemeler has been ordered detached from com- mand of the Norfolk navy yard and as- s uot Byl patunent, rman of the public buildings com. | URGE WORLD COURT | made the | former vice mayor; Leonard S. Hor- Frank Morrison, secretary of the federation, beside him. Maj. O. M. Solbert, U. S. A and his son Peter, The boy learned to ride in London, where ional | Photo. ON SENATOR BORAK Prominent Republicans Join in Plea for International Justice Tribunal. Dy the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 31.—Asking him to urge action upon the Senate committee on foreign relations in sup- port of the Permanent Court of In- ternational Justice, 28 prominent Re- publicans have written a joint letter public here yesterday to Sen- ator William Borah of Idaho, chair- man of the committee. The letter says that failure of the Senate to act in this matter would repudiate President Coolidge and op- pose the will of the Republican party. Signatures Attached to Letter. Those who signed the letter are George W.Wickersham, former Attor- ney General In the cabinet of President Taft; Gov. Percival P. Baxter of Maine, Representative Frederick W. Dallin- ger of Massachusetts, former Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas, for- mer Gov. Herbert S. Hadley of Mis- souri, now chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis; A. Lawrence Lowell, president of ‘Harvard Uni- versity; Rt. Rev. Willlam Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts, Protestant Episcopal Church; Mrs. Andrew Car- negie, New. York: Gilbert Betteman of Clncinnati, former commander of American Legion of Ohio and ner_of New Haven, former chief of staff, Bureau Aircraft Production, dur- ing the World War; Mrs. Everett Colby, delegate-at-large to the Re- publican national convention from New Jersey; V. Everit Macy of New York, former chairman Shipbuilding Adjustment Board and umpire of Washington Labor Board during the World War; John T. Pratt of New York, chairman National Budget Commission. Acting Mayor John C. troit, William Jay Schieffelin of New York, president Serbian Children’s Welfare Society of America; Adelbert Moot, Buffalo, former president of New York State Bar Association. George A. Plimpton, New York, for- mer president of the board of trus- tees of Amherst College; Oscar S. Straus of New York, former Ambas- sador to Turkey; Henry Goddard Leach, editor, New York; Rush C. Butler, Chicago, former counsel, In- terstate Commerce Commission; Thomas C. Day, Indianapeds: Isaac Ullman of New Haven, Daniel WIl- lard, railroad president; Edward W. Decker, banker, Minneapolis; Samuel Mather, Cleveland, Ohio; Edwin G. Merrill, banker, New ~York; Mrs. Henry Phipps, New York; Edwin S, Webster, Boston, engineer. War on Trachoma Among Indians. An intensive campaign to stamp out trachoma an -eye disease prevalent among Indians and often resulting in blindness, will be inaugurated by a clinic to open .at Albuquerque, N. M., January 10 under the direction of Dr. L. Webster Fox, professor .of opthalmology of the University of Pennsylvania. Establishment of sim- ilar clinies for instructing Indian Lodge of De- Service physicians in ‘the' treatment | of the scrtions the suuy malady will of . ndisn wn follow in vopulation the dnteiior other under De President Green, who succeeds the late Samuel Gompers, stands in National Photo URY HEAD HOME FOR THE Paul. The police dog is owned by Mellon. i » out Woodridge ¢ or over into the neighboring | community of Langdon, if you are not familiar with the territory or do not know by somé landmark the exact location of the house ¥you want to visit, take a compass and a vardstick with you. That, according to residents of the Wood- fidge- ngdon section, is one of the few ways vou can find vour exact location in the territory atong Rhode Island avenue north- east, between Twelfth street and the District e. And a real estate plat-of that section of the eity will Le helpful. When Washington was laid out and the plan made for consecutive numbering of the houses on streets, somebody forgot to lay out a plan for the Woodridge-Langdon sec- tion. The result is that streets are marked where streets ought not to be and the numbers of houses are jumbled about so that a cross-word puzzle expert would find himself at a loss in the attrac- tive suburb. Sometimes, rumor has it, a resi- dent of the section has to stop and identify his location by landmarks SCHOOL PRINCIPAL TO0 BE NAMED SOON Head for Powell Junior High and Assistant for Central Will Be Appointed. Next time you g A principal for the Powell Jfunior High School and an assistant princi- pal for Central High School, will be appointed by the Toard of Education at its first meeting of the new cal- endar year next Wednesday. ‘ The as- sistant principalship at Central was made vacant through the promotion of ‘Alvin W. Miller to principal, suc- ceeding Stephen E. Kramer, newly appointed first assistant superintend- ent of school: Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou is anxious to appoint as soon as pos- sible a principal for the new Powell Junior High School, which will open at the beginning of the second semes- ter of the current scholastic vear, February 1. Organization of the school will have to be started im- mediately to have it in readiness February ’ There are a number-of candidates for the Powell principalship, but the superintendent has not yet made his selection. The assistant principalship at Central, it is reported, probably will be offered o one of the male members of the school's faculty. —————— Art Critic L'Alliance Speaker. M. Louis Reau, famous French art critic and author and director of the Gazette des Beaux Arts, will address the Federation de L'Alliance Fran- calse at a meeting Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, at the Cosmos Club. M. Reau is now on his way to the United States for a lecture tour. i Phi Mu Delta Session Ends. ORONO, Me., December 31.—The {National Conclave of the Phi Mu Delta Fraternity, which had been in session at the University of Maine, {cloged last .night after it hod heen tvoted to hold the nesl onnusl clave at the University-of 1llinols, EACH DAY BRINC word cake, designed and manufactured by Roger Cretaux, a New York hotel chef. A NEW CROSS-WORD. i A By iR Here we have a cross- The confection will be a prize .in the oross-word puzzle contest between students of Yale and Harvard Sunday afternoon. HOLIDAYS. the Secretary's Copyright by to find his own Island Avenue tion, bewildere: uniformity in Secretary of the Treasury Mellon photographed at his home in Pittsburgh with his son home. d D the lay daughter, Mi Underwood & Usderwood. Compass Needed to Find Friend In Woodridge-Langdon Suburbs The Citizens’ the ng Ailsa Rhode Associa- lack out of of streets and consecutive numbering, has enlisted its forces in an effort to have the Post Office Department and the Distric t Government co- operate in an effort to secure un D to residents of the of a expert to find his a new postman is far as timely de- livery of the mails is concerned. formity of num man, according suburb, has to sig-saw puzzle way about and a total loss a Here is the way it works out. corner house standing nbering. be somewhat on the The A of Jackson and Twenty-second streets may be number: ed 2200, e house just across the street may be num- bered 2400, wh blocks farther in the middle be numbered 17 house may be numbers, acc the associ: section, at random tion ridge and with a puzzled “An. Langdon ich away. of the 04, 1506 d air. hould &0 be two Or a house block while the next The may house rding to members of tion, all residents of the were apparently Selected while the situa- continues residents of Wood- into 1925 | POSTAL MEN LAUDED | FORE ‘i 7 3 Postmaster Ge: today for efficient vear's | business. enal New.states: department. to say that it fore equaled. posed of, The Postma as the mnew ing the holiday each and every congratulated work record-breaking year neral was Harry postmasters and employes of the service everywhére in handling this S. FFICIENT WORK | Postmaster General Congratulates Office Forces on Complete Suc- cess in Holiday Service. New Christmas In the Postal Bulletin, made public today, a letter from Postmaster Gen- “Returns thus far received indicate that the Christmas business of 1924 was the greatest every handled by the “It affords me great gratification cared for with an accuracy and expedition never be- The Postmaster General makes his acknowledgment to post- masters and employes everywhere for the eflicient manner in which the un- pdecedented volume of maifl was dis- realizing as he does that to their loyalty and fine service the result is attributabl ster General took occasion also to acknowledge the ex- pressions of good will coming to him greetings thousands in the postal service dur- this from scason and to wish employe connected with the service a happy and pros- Va., Friday. conducted . at Church yesterda leaves a widow, nnon _RBrennan Hreanan, and prenpan Muzzy. St. perous new year, John D. Brennan Dead. John D. Brennan, 46 years old, well known in this city, died in Richmond, Funeral services were Peter's Catholic Interment was in Mr. Brennan Mrs. Catherine Con- Mount Olivet Cemetery. a brother, isier, airE. L: .san Wide World Photos. SCIENTIST THE SECRETARY OF LABOR RE and their son James arriving in New While in the S .-TURNS. ecretary, Mrs. Davis York from a trip to South America. outh Secretary Davis was besieged by representatives of 70,000 Italians and Spaniards who desire to come to the United States. Jiy United News Picturvs TRUMENT TO WEIGH THE EARTH. Dr. Paul R. Heyl of the United States Bureau of Standards, in a cave 35 feet underground, where he is using a delicate instrument which will determine the weight of"the earth. The recording part of the apparatus i Heyl’s body does not affect it. GEOLOGISTS ELECT .~ SOCIETY'S HEADS ‘W. B. Scott, Princeton, Pres- ident—Washingtonians Among Officers. By the Associated Press, ITHACA, N. Y., December 31.—Prof. William B. Scott of Princeton Univer- sity has been elected president of the Geological Society of America, it was announced yesterday at sessions of -seventh annual convention, now being held at Cornell University. He succeeds Dr. Waldemar Lindgren of Brookline, Other elections were announced as follows: First vice president, Reginald W. Brock, Vancouver, B. C.; second vice president, Marius R. Campbell, Wash- ington, D. C,; vice president to repre- sent the Paleontological Society, R. S. Lull, New Haven, Conn.; vice presi- dent to represent the Mineralogical Society, Arthur S. Eakle, Berkeley, alif.; secretary, Charles H. Berke: | New York; treasurer, Edward B. Mat- | thews, Baltimore, Md.; editor, Joseph | Stanley Brown, New York; counsellor (1923-1925)7 to fill unexpired term, | Charles Camsell, Ottawa, Ontarlo; coun- | sellors (1924-1926),- U. S. Grant, Chi- | cago; Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr, | Pa.; representatives on the National |Research Council (July 1, 1925, to June 30, 1928), Clarence N. Fenner, Wash- ington, D. C.; L. C. Graton, Cambridge, | Mass. To Aid Industry. Geologists are destined to play an increasingly vital part in determin- ing the industrial development of American cities, sald Charles H. Behre. jr.' of Cincinnati] who dis- cussed the relation of sclence to modern business at today's sessions. He outlined ‘the valuable work now being done by the Cincinnati resource survey ‘in informing manufacturers what particular industries should be encouraged to settle in that efty. Other speakers of the second day's meeting were David White of Wash- ington, formerly of the United States Geological ~ Survey, who trpated briefly the projected oceanographic investigation; Frank B. Wayne of Fort Wayne, In Prof Douglas Johnson of Columbia University, Prof. Chester K. Wentworth, University of Iowa; H. S. Palmer, United States Geological Survey; Dr. Maurice G. Mehl, Univetsity of Missouri; Dr. Homer P. Little, Worcester, Mass.; Hugh D. Miser, United States Geo. logical Survey; Malcolm H. Bissel, Bryn Mawr; Harold D. Wanless, Uni- versity of Illinois, and Robin Willls of Princeton, N. J. WOULD AID RECORDER. Senate Bill Seeks to Increase Staff of District Official. Two bills covering the work of the Recorder of Deeds office were intro- duced in the House yesterday by Chairman Reed of the House District committee. They are identical with bills_introduced nearly a year ago by Senator Ball. One provides for the employment of a second deputy re- corder at a salary of $2,000, to be paid out of fees and collections of the recorder's office. The other would | 1meénd the code of laws of the Dis- | rict reiative 1o tis recording of deeds of chatteus, . Shoes in Gotham i Easter Parade to | Bear Word Blocks Speeial Dispatch to The Star LYNN, Mass, December 31— | Shoes bearing the square of the cross-word puzzle probably will be seen on Fifth avenue, New York, before the Spring style pa- rade on Easter Sunday. Two Lynn manufacturers have begun work on oxfords on which a cross-word puzzle design will be featured Colored squares alternating white and red or white and green are used to embellish the vamps, tips or heels. The new style is « pected to be popular at late su per parties. MAY CHANGE WAVE p- OF WCAP AND WRC Commerce Department Seeks Enlargement of Broadcasting Channels. A change in the wave length of the two large local radio broadcasting stations, WCAP ,and WRC, is con- templated by the Department of Com- merce. In line with its general investiga- tion of the possibility of enlarging the channels for additional broad- casting stations, which has been in progress for a month or more, the Commerce Department will undertake an inquiry next week into the possi- Lility of assigning other wave lensths to the two big stations in Washing- ton, That the wave length will not remain at 469 meters is predicted by the radio division of the department. | WCAP and WRC will remain on the| same wave band, however, and will broadcast successive nights The probability is that the wave band as- signed the two local stations, after investigation, will be higher than the 469-meter channel now provided, which is exactly the same as that of station KFI of Los Angeles. The proposed change will not in- terfere with radio reception by users of crystal or small tube sets in Wash- ington, nor will it probably cause any interference with owners of multi- Ftube sets. . New Chaunels Problem. The Department of Commerce has been-faced with the increasingly dif- ficult problem of providing suitable channels for a number of new and projected broadcasting stations. With but . 64 available wave lengths all used, and only a few meters apart, | the problem was where to find new channels, Forty-six applications for new wave loengths in addition to the 64 in use prompted the department to investigate whether the present broadcasting stations could not be pushed closer together as to their wave lengths without too much in- terference. Experiments have been in progress now for a month in reduc- ing the kilocycle diffcrence between many stations and have resulted: in many changes, New wave lengths, in many cases with only slight Cianses; ‘have beon ussigned stations. In the meantime, oxperi-, in another room, where the heat from Dr. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood GONTRACT ILLEGAL, CHALIAPIN ASSERTS :Quoted as Saying Manager | Exceeded Authority in Chi- cago Opera Pact. between Herbe manager of the Chicag Opera and I Hurok, person | manager of Feodor Chaliapin’s con- cert en ments, stating that Chali- apin cannct advertised to appear in opera in Washington prior to his appearance with the Chicago forces in February is illegal,” according t Jacques Samoussoud, musical directo | of the Washington Opera Co., in statement this morning. Mr. Samas | soud has just returned from Chicag where he has been in conference wit | Mr. Johnson and the great Russia |basso. Chaliapin told Mr. Samoussou | the above, and added | _“This contract is invalld, becaus Hurok had no right to sign such contract without first consulting me and any such paper should also h my signature on it as well as his. Mr. Samoussoud quotes the follow - ing as a conversation between Ch iapin and Mr. Johnson, regarding tt matter: contract Sees No Obstacle. “I see no_reason why I cannot with the Washington company January 26, said Chaliapin. To which Mr. Johnson responded “According to my contract with Hurok, I forbid you to advertise yourself as singing in opera in Wash- |ington prior to your appearance in “Boris Godonouv” with the Ch company. “I.do not know of this contract Chaliapin is said to have answlred “Hurok has no right to sign any such paper without first consulting me and zetting my signature. If you can ar range with Mr. Albion, director the Washington company, to release me, all right. Otherwise, T must re- spect my contract with the Washin ton Opera Company.” Mr. Johnson told both Mr. Chaliapin and Mr. Samoussoud that he would write Mrs. Wilson-Greene, manager of the local performances of the Chi cago company, suggesting she rele: the entire on of Chicago oper here to the Washington Opera Com- pany. Mrs. Greene does not acknowl- edge any such word being received and says relations between her and the Chicago forces are the same as before the controversy opened. In the meantime Mr. Chaliapin has seen Enrica Clay Dillon, stage direc tor for the local performance of +Faust,” and Is going ahead with his plans to sing Mephistopheles here January 26. Mr. Samoussoud has called the first orchestra rehearsal for Sunday afternoon. Mr. Albion says that Chaliapin is sspecially en- thusiastic over the efforts of the Washington company to establish national movement in opera here. sing ments are still going on to determinec whether a separation of 5, 7, 9 or 10 kilocycles Is necessary to prevent in terference between stations. Whatever action is taken by the department will cause no inconven- fence to Washington listeners-in, but when the tests start here, within o week, the two local stations will not found ai the same spot on the diats.